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  • Member Spotlight: Sandra Carrillo, MD, MHSM

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    Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself.

    A: My name is Sandra Carrillo, and I am a medical doctor. I have had a clinical practice in Colombia for several years.  I am a specialist in cannabinoid-based medicine.

  • ACS Guidance to Massachusetts on Veteran Care

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    Dear Members of the Joint Committee:

    As one of the senior cannabis physicians in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, President of the Association of Cannabis Specialists, Board Member of the Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, and former VA physician I wish to convey some very specific concerns regarding House Bill 4274. Despite vocal advocacy by a few veterans, this bill is not in the interests of veterans or other patients.

  • ACS Response to JAMA article entitled Most Doctors Know Nothing About Cannabis

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    In an editorial in JAMA, Dr. Nathaniel Morris, a recent Stanford graduate, laments that even in California where medical cannabis has been available since 1996, no medical education on cannabis was provided to him during medical school or residency.

  • ACS Response to Oil (Vape) Pen Ban

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    The currently posed question of when or whether the embargoed oil cartridges can be released for sale has at least two separate issues embedded. First is the question of the safety of these particular cartridges, and the second is the safety of any such cartridges that use current technology. Both of these questions would reasonably need to be affirmed prior to sales.

  • Prescription Vs. Recommendation

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    Since the inception of medical cannabis legalization in California in 1996, physicians have only been able to write a “recommendation”. This was intended, at that time, to keep the practitioners out of trouble with the government by providing only a document stating that the benefits likely outweighed the risks. 

  • ACS – MCRAA Joint Comments on FDA Proposed Research Guidelines

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    The Medical Cannabis Research Advocacy Alliance (MCRAA) appreciates the opportunity to provide comments in response to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Cannabis and Cannabis-Derived Compounds: Quality Considerations for Clinical Research Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability 85 FR 44305 (July 22, 2020).

  • ACS Takes Issue with Wall Street Journal Advertisement

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    To Whom It May Concern at the Wall Street Journal:

    We write to you to express a concern over a recent ½ page advertisement in the Journal.

  • ACS Letter To ONDCP Director Rahul Gupta

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    Dear Dr. Gupta:

    Congratulations on the confirmation as Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. We welcome your leadership as our respective agendas are to improve and serve the health of the American people.

  • Association of Cannabinoid Specialists and the Medical Society of New Jersey Letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland

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    Dear Attorney General Garland:

    Subsequent to the letter sent to you, and to Secretary Becerra, by Senators Warren and Booker dated October 6, 2021 requesting that you exercise your authority under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 (CSA), we write to support their request and to support your pragmatic efforts to do so.

  • ACS and ASA Comments on Senator Schumer’s Cannabis Opportunity and Administration Act

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    Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Senators Booker and Wyden:

    The below signed stakeholders are collectively parties that have an interest in or work with medical cannabis. We are committed to ensuring qualified physicians administer sound medical cannabis advice, that patients have access to high-quality, safe cannabis medicines, and that appropriate regulatory oversight is implemented to protect the integrity and value of cannabis medicine.